ready steady. year long countdown to the slogan winter olympics a launch is all across russia the sports stars are already on the starting blocks was a disease glistening with fresh paint and officials cutting the ribbon. droning on america's seas a media blitz aimed at in hong kong perceptions of washington's on many beats questions over the years abroad. and attention in tunisia public anger over an opposition leader's killing comes close to boiling point in the government to dissolve and raising fears of the second

revolution. you're watching r t why from moscow with me to ban would say it's good to have you company today. russia's black sea resort of sochi is making a yeah until the start of one of the most exciting events will action love is the one telling lympics giant countdown clocks have started taking it into major cities across the country is lindsey france reports from school. several meters high weighing nearly eight tons each now the color scheme on these clocks is blue but as you can imagine since this walk here in moscow is set just outside red square it is red farther to the south zone or is just like this or having it in

a much bigger way a president who is meeting with the chief of the international olympic committee along with a seventy's delegation representing countries participating in the olympics in the then his big celebrations down there and saw cheek kicking off today first off with the washer ice palace here and then of course you guessed it is a big iceberg portman's with some of the leading this is ours a love of russian figure skating and i know we have it all up with a large fireworks display right now the hope is that russia will take home at least eleven gold medals in the social winter olympics and no doubt many experts are saying with the olympics being on home turf for russia it could just very well carry that off now organizers are saying that even though the answer is that this is not being spared whatsoever to organize these olympic games at the ticket prices will still be affordable for the average person she were testing with them to give

us a better idea of just what india they consider what it can be like i guess we're going to get any areas of him like you know whether martin salem had information in an austrian to have us a better luck of what to say or sims piece by piece sort she's a limb to train is coming together continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up fast and the company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready for you. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and olympic villages are in the final phase of can. struction are being referred and furnished their share jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service but achieving this goal has come at

a staggering price hosting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive in the in peak history they've cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the beijing summer games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which has six venues all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi ice day inside this past hockey arena is pristine and ready for use it will stage the under eighteen world championships in april when the team does an international event that will test all in the venue before the games begin the cycle for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool because the park is than by the black sea coast here i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. it is

a similar story that not much was here before but there are also couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bobsled track and then there's something you can't fail to lease but if you make your way down the mountain will eventually come to hey one of the most dramatic sights at any winter olympics the ski jumping the larger ramp on the left hand side is for the men on the smaller one on the right is for the women he will be competing for the very first time in this event at an olympics next year. linking the so-called mountain in coastal clusters as. not been easy over five hundred kilometers of am rail lines have been laid and they have transformed infrastructure but the city mad believing the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the

conditions they have to face during changes especially on this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future a brilliant future. she has undergone huge change in just six years but the transformation is almost complete and the black sea resort believes he can and will deliver against remember this time next year and. a soft change.

yielding to an angry congress president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents which he says justify his policy of ordering talkative killings of suspected terrorists us all make have been demanding the files for yes but the president had staunchly refused recently however some senators hinted they would block his nominee for cia chief from taking office john brennan the man behind the u.s. joint program is to face the senate at his confirmation hearing on thursday and then as you can report says confirmation one born in the horizon on marriage has strong feet. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers and the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing. by allowing us to see and choose

from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use of this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a. considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should

be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited assassinations on the u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come. lift you might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to zero thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president joe order that that person be killed the spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world the latest announcement a new facility in asia where obama has redefined war there an intervention in libya

he made the case that the war powers act in a private because there is no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address claiming that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great. both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as

america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further the goal is pretty much clear to be able to control the world with a remote control in washington i'm going to. and in britain for your eyes only private messages so send the internet users could be decoded and monitored and the government says it's to keep the country safe. a brand new wave of public fury in tunisia has seen the country's government dissolved ruling islamicist say a nonpartisan cabinet of technocrats will be formed to manage the state until elections can be held police fired tear gas us thousands of angry protesters in the capital tunis on wednesday after the attack to the offices of the governing party

the unrest was spotted by the assassination of a key opposition leader. you do with someone claiming the authorities were responsible political analysts denny mclean believes the government reshuffle won't be enough to calm the storm. this could act as a calculus for more violence and the more i walk into museum of course to see where the heart of the arab spring we noticed an area where you have the arab street is so politicized any small change of course you can create content and hatred within society and this is essentially very different from is here now where you have mass protests against the government we have many calls for the government to resign you have outraged public outrage against its affiliation which has been deemed to have been committed by people who have close links with the government this is to get out of this using government but this really shows that they are spring is not necessarily going to force a change in good it has been a force for aggression it has led to more backward policy and they showed the

muslim brotherhood they really have to go political policy or they are more they have done essentially replace the regime which they have supposedly overthrown and they have continued the same the same regressive and negative policies which have been undertaken by their predecessors. and while some in tunisia blame in the high profile killing of the ruling islamists adnan pachachi jimmie's international radio says some believe outside influences could be to blame. people believe that anomalies you just might be behind the attack but the majority believe that we have to be patient in two weeks for the final report so the in this dictation from the interior ministry to be able to say whether this or the other one. committed this described this summation dear leader of another party they are pointing to forty and they have mentioned they said there are probably four in

hands one trying to spreads throughout tunisia this country to hijack the revolution from its people. while we keeping a close eye on that story and its development and we want to know what you think of the story i don't see dot com we're asking about a possible outcome from the latest showing of anger in tunisia and what you think could happen here the options you can choose from right now you can choose a push for a new revolution or to islamist dominated government will be forced to make concessions third one could be a descend into widespread violence and evil or a regime crackdown on opposition protests let's have a look now on the results. now a majority of the new here it comes a majority of you think that. thirty percent will have a regime crackdown on the opposition tunisia will plunge into further dress and out

iran to a quarter of you think that the country will see a repeat all the arab spring twenty two percent of you have a feeling of that concessions from the islamic government and leadership is ready for political concessions and the rest on country think that protesters will face a harsh response from authorities if you want to oz so you know you're also old do you go to argue dot com and costas age so we know where you stand now to another country and gulf to with some of the heaviest fighting in months erupted in the syrian capital rebels tried to take control of a key approach to the city center facing heavy government resistance that's just by both sides vocalizing a willingness to negotiate and that's coming up after this. news

today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. we speak your language i mean some of the rolling out of the. programs of documentaries and spanish matches. a little eternity of angola's stories. here. the spanish find out more visit.

my. are you watching are the british government is considering using the so-called black boxes she wanted to private citizens internet use they say in the interest of safety the move has been slammed as a pointless invasion of privacy emma carr the deputy director of the big brother watching and says the new measures would do nothing to catch people who pose a real security threat the u.k. government seems to think that it's necessary to monitor the communications of every person in great britain rather than actually looking for the people who are actually committing crimes that are going to drive those people further and further underground of the internet and they're only going to capture. the innocent and the

incompetent as far as i'm concerned and not by any means saying that communications data isn't important but when you have the director general of m i five talking about the evidence that was used to make their spill and calling it pretty heroic assumptions that we've been made that the m i five obviously going to need this information and will react to this information if they saying that this bill isn't based on fact it's based on fund the full. imitations of facts and this is why we need to go and have a very hard look at this bill get more evidence have a much further in-depth consultation to actually get the facts about what is needed and how it can be done. drinking away your fly deprived may soon become illegal in russia the government is considering a crackdown on the alcohol consumption on passenger planes after a series of in-flight brawls one of which even false an emergency landing that's

stories on r.t. dot com. and i didn't you know will control the fall of all plans within twenty years says the country's foreign minister and he claims it won't even take military action unlike the attempt to take the island only you paid thirty years ago by not what fuels that his certainty. dot com. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operation throughout the day. syria's capital damascus has witnessed some of its most intense clashes in months rebels attacked government forces trying to seize control of key approaches to the

city center the finding came despite an earlier awful body opposition leader who was hunted to negotiate with president assad stepping team yes a government would also be willing to talk that's according to its ally iran news foreign minister was quoted at this egypt sponsored islamic summit where the us splits within the opposition the make stability unlike the even if they bring us down says syrian tribe united states you've done a minute or two just for me it's just like the rules that we'd be going through and the sun will be nicer ones different than it is now and that's not really how we do the come out actually console victims in detroit even when the us list too. that's it on its black list the with not. defending it because they know they cannot control it. nor b. because lucian is dreaming if the believe that they can control the groups are sort of top leader division in the beginning and the most important part is there these

are the princes and they will if you feed people they are not full officials they are not fighters for freedom they are just work princes and the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and main financing. entity will ask them to do and if they don't do it and they will lose this financing they would lose the support so they have to do this and simply have they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same view was so it's a big mess and yet the west would like to see this big mess filling the country. now for some international news in brief the leader of common sense is in talks with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas formal coalition government khaled meshaal says he is now laying the groundwork for parliamentary and presidential elections some us to control the gaza strip in two thousand and seven after winning an election the year before the spots heavy fighting with the fatah movement headed

by a bus you continue to control the west bank. the french defense minister says islam is fine to set fired rockets at his forces aimed in the north east of mali it's not known if they were any casualties there are now more than four thousand french soldiers in the country troops the government says in paris that it wants to withdraw from next month the defense minister says the war has. seventeen million euro. tens of thousands of students are expected to take to the streets across spain as they continue their protest against educational reforms the last two days have been huge demonstrations but thursday is expected to be the largest yet there were calls for the country's education minister to resign over the changes to the education system it's now playing to these will cost five hundred million euros to put into

place. coming up in a few minutes of the latest edition of the kaiser report. sigrid laboratory. was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the dog call the government no longer represents the breed. the people are going to take such as . we.

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welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser i told you to get out of bons i told you to get out of sterling and out of stricken tomatoes on wall street are agreeing with me yeah the bond apocalypse which is by the way a term that i now claim ownership. u.b.s. tells clients to get ready for the bond pocalypse u.b.s. is planning a mass mailing to many of its brokerage clients alerting them that they have been reclassified as aggressive investors following a recent change in its market outlook that some people inside the firm say reflects a growing bearishness in the bond market particularly over the long term some acts

yeah why are they reclassifying clients as aggressive if you were a client or if you were the broker sending out this letter what is going on here right well when you open an account at a brokerage firm per the laws of going back to thirty three and thirty four the know your customer rules you have to fill out what the profile of the customer is whether they're conservative whether they're aggressive and typically if they are conservative then they would migrate over to the bond market which are perceived to be conservative investments however now that we've had round after round of quantitative easing and it create this enormous bond bubble here in the u.k. and in the united states and around the world the sovereign bond bubble u.b.s. knows that the bond apocalypse is upon us that bond prices like in one thousand nine hundred four will drop not just twenty five percent but fifty sixty seventy percent so they're preemptively going in and they're reclassified all their

customers who have checked conservative bond investor they've just without really having a discussion with those cut they should be telling those customers get out of bonds but instead they're just changing the classification of those customers from conservative to high risk so that when the bonds collapse as they most certainly will then they can claim well the customers indicated there were four risky investments so to practically making a legal maneuver ahead of the lawsuits that are coming their way because they put them into bonds knowingly that they will collapse it's amazing that the bank is is treating their customers again this is misspelling another. scandal this isn't the selling scandal twenty fourteen this is the p.p.i. scandal twenty fourteen this is the man the scandal of this year and. the interest rate swaps scandal of twenty fourteen this is a huge scandal we're seeing the birth of a massive scandal right now u.b.s.

i cook at bank in a crooked country with crooked bankers committed crooked fraud once again so i want to look to this headline here on the telegraph. the banking system must be re set says born and in it he says he claims he's going to electrify the fence dividing the retail banking part of these big banks from the riskier investment banking side and the article says this means that if banks are judged by the new prudential regulation authority to be trying to flout the rules the government will have the power to order a complete break up of the bank so it says now the government will have the power to break up these banks they've had the power for years they've had the power to incarcerate all these misselling scandal they have the ability to incarcerate all the bankers involved in my work but they don't do it doesn't mean that if you hand

them another power to break up the banks because they're not separating investment from retail banking then are they going to use it max well i mean is george osborne lying i mean that's the question is he just lying bald faced lies you telling the british people i am george osborne i'm a despicable liar. i tell you that i'm going to prosecute bankers never prosecuted bankers and the bankers have their hands in my pockets i'm completely conflicted i take bribes i'm a liar my name is george osborne i lie i'm a liar my name is george osborne and i lie i'm a liar my name is george osborne and i lie but let's look at how when they have the authority when the government already has the authority to deal with hard core criminal behavior and what they choose to do right now the same day he alleges that he might dissolve a bank if they merge if they overlap their investment banking retail banking side.